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Rate limit middleware doesn't set headers or provide metadata via interface.

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
go
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start by locating the rate limit middleware and the RateLimiterStore interface, then compare their behavior with the linked go-chi/httprate implementation. Define the metadata and header behavior needed for rate-limit events, and verify that the middleware or store interface exposes it and that the relevant tests cover the resulting X-Rate-Limit-* and Retry-After headers.

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Description

Similar rate limit middleware like https://github.com/go-chi/httprate handles automatically setting appropriate X-Rate-Limit-* and Retry-After headers on a rate limit event which this middleware does not. This is compounded by the RateLimiterStore interface not providing a mechanism for returning metadata to set them manually either.

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